The first job I had in Columbus was less than 2 minutes away from my apartment. I used to go home every single day to eat lunch and walk the dog and I'd watch NE on A&E. I'm fairly sure I've seen every episode more than once. I never tire of it.

Man, I'm getting tired of the whole Burris appointment kerfuffle. I think almost everyone in the whole mess is annoying.

I understand Reid making his stand when the Blago scandal broke, but he claimed legal authority he just doesn't have. Legally, Reid has to seat the guy.

In a couple of interviews I've seen, Burris seems to act completely oblivious of the controversy about Blago making an appointment. That just seems intellectually dishonest to me. The appointment itself may be perfectly legal, but come on, the controversy isn't hard to understand.

Then there's Bobby Rush who keeps talking about racism, again ignoring the controversy about Blago's attempt to sell the seat, even though the decision about seating an appointment was made before there was any appointee.

The whole thing is so messed up. Just seat the guy, acknowledge there is no legal authority to keep a legally appointed senator out of the senate, and call upon the Illinois legislature to do something about it since only they can actually do something. Yeah, it'll be bad for Reid, but he made the stupid move in trying to overextend his actual authority.

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I have to confess a certain admiration for the way Burris is acting. He knows his story and he's calmly sticking to it. Yeah, he could use an extra talking point or two, but that calmness is refreshing.

Gud, ITA. I'm getting tired of Reid in gereral and wish the Senate Dems would pick a different majority leader.

WTF?

Among the ongoing political theater in Washington, questions swirled in the nation's capital today when first lady Laura Bush introduced the new Bush china -- with a price tag of more than $550,000 -- less than two weeks before she and President Bush move out.

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I swear, I'm expecting them to set the White House on fire before they leave. Sheesh (in lieu of some stronger statements).

I'm still waiting for the New Madrid fault to go off, Yellowstone to blow, and California to have "the big one" before the inaugural just to add to Obama's plate.

Or Bush to send troops to Israel. Or Al Qyda to attack something. Or Bush to preemtively pardon Rumsfeld, Cheney, et al. Or what Gud said.

I'm still waiting for the New Madrid fault to go off, Yellowstone to blow, and California to have "the big one" before the inaugural just to add to Obama's plate.

Yeah. Plus there's this to worry about: Mystery Roar from Faraway Space Detected

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Space is typically thought of as a very quiet place. But one team of astronomers has found a strange cosmic noise that booms six times louder than expected.

The roar is from the distant cosmos. Nobody knows what causes it.

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Many objects in the universe, including stars and quasars, emit radio waves. Even our home galaxy, the Milky Way, emits a static hiss (first detected in 1931 by physicist Karl Jansky). Other galaxies also send out a background radio hiss.

But the newly detected signal, described here today at the 213th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, is far louder than astronomers expected.

There is "something new and interesting going on in the universe," said Alan Kogut of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

Some possibilities:

• Praxis is about to blow up.
• A Doomsday Machine
• We had a reactor leak here now. Give us a few minutes to lock it down. Large leak, very dangerous.